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LiDAR map of Alwinton
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Alwinton, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 64 recorded places here: 38 scheduled monuments, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 9 listed buildings, 1 Atlas of Hillforts entry, 1 ancient place (Pleiades). On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 249 m and 490 m above sea level; its highest point is about 754 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 18 barrows or cairns, 5 Roman sites, 5 settlements and 4 crosses.
Alwinton on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Alwinton, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Alwinton. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
Aerial archaeology at Alwinton. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. More about this map
See Alwinton with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network, Historic England's aerial survey and the 64 recorded places in the parish, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- Northumberland, England
- Area
- 155.3 km²
- Recorded places
- 64
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 249–490 m above sea level; highest 754 m
- ONS code
- E04010733
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Round cairn on Shillhope LawScheduled monument
- Gallow LawAtlas of Hillforts entry
- Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's CairnScheduled monument
- Roman fort, two Roman fortlets, two Roman camps, a section of Roman road and a medieval settlement and chapel at Chew GreenScheduled monument
- Three cross dykes on Middle HillScheduled monument
- Round cairn 420m north-east of Blindburn BridgeScheduled monument
- Unenclosed round house, 200m north of Barrow CleughScheduled monument
- Clennell Street palisaded settlementScheduled monument
- Palisaded settlement, 200m NNE of Hosedon LinnScheduled monument
- Cross dyke south east of Uplaw KnoweScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 650m ESE of Old Quickening CoteScheduled monument
- Crigdon Hill round cairnScheduled monument
- Iron Age and Romano-British settlements on Ward LawScheduled monument
- Palisaded settlement on Trows LawScheduled monument
- Three round cairns on Thirl MoorScheduled monument
- Green Gairs round cairnScheduled monument
- Round cairn, 160m north east of Hosedon LinnScheduled monument
- Watty Bell's round cairnScheduled monument
- Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf HillScheduled monument
- Ring cairn 240m north east of Old Quickening CoteScheduled monument
- Cross dyke and two building foundations at Copper SnoutScheduled monument
- Round cairn 960m ENE of West WilkwoodScheduled monument
- Unenclosed hut circle settlement and plot of cord rig, 650m south west of WholehopeScheduled monument
- Two round cairns 880m north east of Wilkwood EastScheduled monument
- Outer Golden Pot medieval wayside crossScheduled monument
- Romano-British farmstead, 700m north east of TrowsScheduled monument
- Roman camp, 900m NNE of FeatherwoodScheduled monument
- Romano-British settlement 810m south of Slippery CragsScheduled monument
- Observation post 140m north west of Ridlees CairnScheduled monument
- Observation post 780m north west of Blackburn CragScheduled monument
- Observation post immediately north of Watty Bell's CairnScheduled monument
- Observation post 690m east of Watty Bell's CairnScheduled monument
- Memmerkirk ChapelScheduled monument
- Deserted medieval village 320m west of Quickening CoteScheduled monument
- Linbrig deserted medieval village, 540m north of LinbriggsScheduled monument
- Passpeth Sike deserted medieval hamlet, 1.2km east of ShillmoorScheduled monument
- Medieval and later dispersed settlement, 730m north and 860m north of LinbriggsScheduled monument
- Two deserted medieval hamlets and part of an associated field system, 830m east of ShillmoorScheduled monument
- Defended settlement, field system, cairnfield, round cairn and medieval settlement, 300m south east of BarrowScheduled monument
- Chew GreenAncient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
- Clennel Hall
- Church of St Michael
- Weallans Gravestone 3 Yards South
- Robson and Brown Headstones
- Dickson Headstone
- Wallace Headstone 15 Yards South
- Feil Gravestone
- Table Tomb
- Pair of Turnbull Headstones
Other recorded places
- Battle of Nesbit MoorWikidata place
- 'dere Street': Border - Newstead - ElginhaughRecorded place
- Otterburn Training AreaWikidata place
- Butt RoadsRecorded place
- Green LawRecorded place
- Harbottle MoorsWikidata place
- Otterburn MiresWikidata place
- Ramsey's Burn WoodWikidata place
- Usway BurnWikidata place
- Northumberland National ParkWikidata place
- Barrow BurnWikidata place
- 'maiden Cross'Recorded place
- AlwintonWikidata place
- KidlandWikidata place
- Windy RigRecorded place
Nearest places with their own page
- Biddlestone RC Chapel9.8 km east
- Bremenium12.3 km south
- Stone circle14.9 km north-east
Neighbouring parishes
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
- Hillforts: Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (Lock and Ralston 2017), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.